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Liberation scenes

Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0103 | Film ID: 144

05:17:59 Title: LIBERATION Allied camera teams from Russia, Britain, and the US filmed the liberation of the camps from 1944-1945.
05:18:04 Various camps. Bones. Passports, scissors, shoes, eyeglasses, zyklon B canisters.
05:19:06 Majdanek.
05:19:32 Mauthausen: Corpses on ground. Emaciated survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of liberating soldier.
05:20:38 Bergen-Belsen: Bodies lying out in rows. Civilians tour camp. Women bury the dead. Bulldozer covers mass grave.
05:21:29 Auschwitz: Inmates/survivors line up before fence.

Image
Duration
00:04:31
Date
Event:  1944-1945
Locale
Majdanek, Poland
Auschwitz, Poland
Mauthausen, Austria
Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Chronos-Media Filmarchiv
 
Record last modified: 2023-11-07 12:06:03
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